Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Named No. 31 of 500 on TIME’s List of World’s Best Companies for Sustainable Growth

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 2, 2024--

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation (NYSE: ZWS) was named by TIME and Statista as one of the World’s Best Companies for Sustainable Growth 2025. Zurn Elkay ranked No. 31 overall of the 500 public and private companies making the list and No. 10 among U.S. companies.

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“We are pleased to be recognized for our strong financial performance and sustainability initiatives,” said Todd A. Adams, Chairman and CEO of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. “Our efforts have a compounding impact each and every day, to the environment, to our customers and to our financial performance. We take a holistic, action-oriented approach to delivering solutions to some of our planet’s most complex challenges, always striving to continuously improve on our path forward as a pure-play water business and a leader in water-focused products.”

The World’s Best Companies - Sustainable Growth award is presented by TIME in collaboration with Statista, the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The ranking recognizes companies that demonstrated their commitment to financial growth while actively promoting sustainable environmental practices. The analysis is based on three data sources: revenue growth, financial stability key performance indicators and environmental data.

Visit www.zurnelkay.com/sustainability to learn more about Zurn Elkay Water Solutions’ sustainability efforts, including the company’s most recent sustainability report.

About Zurn Elkay Water Solutions

Named one of America’s Most Responsible Companies and one of America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek and among the World’s Best Companies for Sustainable Growth by TIME, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, and is a growth-oriented, pure-play water management business that designs, procures, manufactures and markets what we believe to be the broadest sustainable product portfolio of specification-driven water management solutions to improve health, hydration, human safety and the environment. The Zurn Elkay product portfolio includes professional grade water safety and control products, flow systems products, hygienic and environmental products and filtered drinking water products for public and private spaces. Learn more at www.zurnelkay.com.

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions was named by TIME and Statista as one of the World’s Best Companies for Sustainable Growth 2025. Zurn Elkay ranked No. 31 overall of the 500 public and private companies making the list and No. 10 among U.S. companies. (Graphic: Business Wire)

LONDON (AP) — The British government's culture secretary has held talks with the BBC as the broadcaster comes under growing scrutiny after one of its TV hosts drew an angry backlash for dismissing sexual misconduct allegations.

Gregg Wallace, a long-time co-presenter on the cooking contest show “Masterchef,” is facing allegations from multiple women that he made inappropriate sexual comments and behaved inappropriately on set over 17 years.

Wallace, 60, said last week he was stepping away from the show while an investigation was launched into his alleged behavior. But his case received further attention Sunday, when he said in a social media post that the complaints came from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age."

He added that he had worked on “Masterchef” with thousands of contestants “of all different ages, all different backgrounds, all walks of life” for two decades and “there's been 13 complaints in that time.”

His comments angered some of the women who made complaints against him. A spokesman for Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office described Wallace's remarks as “completely inappropriate and misogynistic.”

The spokesperson said Monday that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was seeking assurances from the BBC that the publicly funded broadcaster handled such complaints about workplace culture properly.

The BBC has faced questions on how it handles sexual misconduct allegations and how Wallace had continued to front some of its most popular shows for so long despite the complaints.

Television presenter Aggie MacKenzie, who competed on “Celebrity Masterchef” in 2011, told ITV on Monday that Wallace made “endless smutty jokes” and alleged that “he’s been allowed to carry on in his own sweet way for many, many years.”

She said his comments about his accusers illustrate “how he just has no insight or understanding of how he behaves. He just doesn’t get it.”

Others have alleged that Wallace undressed in front of women working on his shows, made comments about his sex life or made women uncomfortable with sexualized jokes during filming.

The BBC reported that 13 people who worked with Wallace over a range of shows have complained about inappropriate sexual comments from him over 17 years.

It reported that Wallace was warned by his employers after a complaint in 2018, and an internal investigation at the time found his behavior was “unacceptable and unprofessional."

Wallace’s lawyers have denied that he “engages in behavior of a sexually harassing nature.”

The BBC, which has said it has “robust processes” to deal with the issue, declined to comment on Wallace's case because of the ongoing investigation by “Masterchef”'s production company.

FILE - Gregg Wallace at Tramshed in London, Thursday Feb. 16, 2017. (Yui Mok/PA via AP, File)